Obama Unaware of Status of Aunt, Campaign Says
Barack Obama’s campaign said that the senator had no knowledge of the immigration status of a Kenyan relative who was reported to be living in the United States illegally. nytimes.com |
Bush Rule Bolstering Deportations Is Withdrawn
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. reversed a ruling that had weakened the ability of immigrants facing deportation to argue that their lawyers did a bad job. nytimes.com |
A Year After an Immigrant’s Death, Signs of Hope
In Patchogue, N.Y., where an Ecuadorean man was killed in 2008, politicians seem to want to be seen as on the side of reconciliation as opposed to confrontation. nytimes.com |
Jury Shown Swastika Tattoo in Hate-Crime Trial
Jeffrey Conroy is charged with killing a man during a wave of assaults on Latinos on eastern Long Island. nytimes.com |
Soccer Soothes a Sense of Discontinuity for a Bosnian Immigrant
The life of an immigrant is stressful, as the writer Aleksandar Hemon can attest, but soccer has given him an invaluable connecting link to this country and fellow immigrants. nytimes.com |